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- Portuguese · borrowed fromararibá
- English todayarariba
Borrowed from Portuguese araribá, from Old Tupi.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood. Full definition →
Borrowed from Portuguese araribá, from Old Tupi.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.